... BABES' OF THE WILD. Mb. Chas. D. Roberts, author of so many good books of natural history, gives us yet another volume treated in the original manner of which he still holds the individuality, even in these times of all-round barefaced imitation. Babes of the Wild deals with young animals of the woods, the lake and by an extension of the ordinary meaning of the title, also of the sea. ...

... To the golfer's library there seems to be no limit. And it is just as well. For, of a surety, there is no limit to the lessons which he can learn. Quite recently it was asserted, on the authority of a famous ex-champion, that the last word on golf instruction had been written. Up to that time it was undeniably the latest but that it was not the last, or for that matter the best, has been ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC B TELL ME MORE, AT THE WINTER GARDEN THEATRE. TELL Me More is by now quite a grown-up play, having been reincarnated at the Winter Garden last May after enjoying a previous existence in America, and from all appearances it will live yet for some months. The previous Winter Garden production was advertised as A laughing success, and Tell Me More might be broadcasted in ...

... . ALTHOUGH The Faun, the new play by Mr. Edward Knoblauch at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, arouses mixed feelings, I think the prevailing sensation is one of repugnance to the non-human attributes of the chief character. If mortals are to reverence a god, be sure that deity must have human form. Wings may be added, it is true, because we all would dearly love to fly, but at the sight of ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE CO-OPTIMISTS AT THE PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE. THE world of the theatre is so subject to change that it is surprising to find the Co- Optimists com pany now at the Prince of Wales Theatre identical with the one ap pearing a year ago at the Palace. This argues finan cial success, pov- erty being more vulnerable to schism than wealth and iu their case the success is well ...

... . REVUE IN FRENCH.-- I am, of course, in a difficulty if I attempt to express any opinion on the question whether this little affair at the Garrick, called Y'a d'Jolies Femmes, is or is not a witty commentary on passing events. If I say it is not, I lay myself open to the extremely unpleasant suggestion that I probably did not understand most of what the commentators were talking about. I ...

... Qms THP FTRST YEAR AT THE APOLLO THEATRE. SIR ARTHUR PINERO, when he lost the élan of youth and fell to working principles and theorise into his plays instead of being content with merely being that grand produce of our race a good story-teller, wrote a bad play called Mid-Channel. In this it was enunciated' that the middle-aged period of married life was the specially dangerous one, the ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE LAW DIVINE, AT WYNDHAM'S THEATRE. THIS is a tale of a soldier's wife who, when war broke out, didn't think it right to be happy any longer. Therefore she started packing parcels with im patient fury, addressed envelopes by the hundred, attended committee meetings day in day out, organised funds for the relief of every thing except income tax, had the telephone put ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC S THE PELICAN, AT THE AMBASSADORS THEATRE. IN letting her blood flow to feed her children with it the mother pelican had sound sense, inasmuch as had that refreshment been denied, indeed her pelicans might have died, as the Lord Chancellor observes, approxi mately, in Iolanthe. But it is not so clear why Wanda Heriot, the heroine of the new play by Cap tain H. M. Har ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC H OLIVER CROMWELL, AT HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. PERHAPS they call it His Majesty's Theatre because it is so fatal to kings. King Richard II., King Duncan, King Claudius, and others have fallen there, and now it is King Charles. No wonder they are ashamed to play God Save the King when the curtain falls. It night smack of irony, although from another point of view of late ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. RIP VAN WINKLE, AT THE PLAYHOUSE. THE Playhouse version of Rip Van Winkle has been received with approval. With this on Mr. Maude's account I am pleased; because even if the performance should not prove as attractive to ordinary evening audiences as it did to the first-night critics, the produc tion should prove a draw to the matinee folk, old and young, who admire ...

... . THE Captain Kidd of Wyndham's Theatre is not to be confused with that thief and murderer of whom in connection with hidden treasure every story-teller has written, and whom every publisher has remembered once a year at least since Edgar A. Poe wrote The Gold Beetle. Not, of course, that the very great scoundrel in whose name even writers of repute have imposed upon the credulous with ...